Create a checkboxes-field with a radiobutton for all items

Question

Usercase: Have a list with services for shops. Those services can be done with an appointment, or without. So the services are checkboxes, and the radio needs to show if it can be done with or without an appointment.

I am scratching my head over this, tried some modules like double_field and composed_field, but they do not fit this case it seems. End-users must be able to choose the services they sell, and also verify if they sell this with or without an appointment.

Example-sketch:

Answer 1

You can also achieve that using the Double Field module.

Go to your content type and add field Type as Dobule field and Wideget as checkbox and checkbox

You can add Prefix or suffix for each field to display them as label for them.

Additionally you can use the Field Group module to make them under a roof.

Here is the screenshot:

Answer 2

Conditional Fields

Another approach to consider, is to use the Conditional Fields module ... Here is an excerpt from its project page:

... allows you to manage sets of dependencies between fields. When a field is “dependent”, it will only be available for editing and displayed if the state of the “dependee” field matches the right condition.

When editing a node (or any other entity type that supports fields, like users and categories), the dependent fields are dynamically modified with the States API.

Refer to the Community Documentation for this module for a lot more information about this module.

Note: this module still has an Alfa status (only), but over 38K sites using it already. Therefor I believe "alfa" is not the right label (anymore)à for this release. It should be at least an RC-version ... if not just an official release ...

Field Group

Maybe you want to consider the Field Group also, to create 3 'groups' (1 for each of the 3 services). Excerpt from its project page:

Fieldgroup will group fields together. All fieldable entities will have the possibility to add groups to wrap their fields together. Fieldgroup comes with default HTML wrappers like vertical tabs, horizontal tabs, accordions, fieldsets or div wrappers.

DataTables

To actually query these combined fields, you can create an appropriate view in a tabular display format that uses the DataTables module, which uses the datatables plugin.

Here are a few online samples to see that module at work (a rather basic views display, using the dataTables views style):

• AbitMORE-scm.com: experiment with the search box in the upper right, eg first type "without" in it, see what happens, and then continue typing so that it becomes "without packages". Doing so you'll only get the rows displayed that contain both keywords somewhere in any of the columns (= 'and' operation), in this sample "without" in 1st column and "packages" in 2nd column.
• Dr.Chgman.com: similar suggestion for the search box, like "zmf z- 1.2" (pause a few secs before typing the spaces in between).

Answer 3

Writing your own module can solve your problem too .

for that you need to create your own field which contains 2 values. first you have to introduce your field to drupal , use hook_field_info() for that .

function ModuleName_field_info() {
   return array(
      'ModuleName_services' => array( //your sub-Field machine readable name.
          'lable' => t('Services'), //Human readable name
          'description' => 'some description', //optional
          'default_widget' => 'widget_name', //optional (text_textfield works here)
          'default_formatter' => 'formatter_name', //(text_default is fine)
      ),
      'ModuleName_appointment' => array(
         'lable' => t('Appointment Status'),
         'description' => 'some description',
         'default_widget' => 'widget_name',
         'default_formatter' => 'formatter_name',
      ),
   );

then Implement hook_field_schema($fields) to specify a place in database . other options could find here and here

function ModuleName_field_schema($fields) {
 columns = array (
  'service' => array(
    'type' => 'varchar',
    //other options could find [here][2] and [here][3]
    'not null' => true,
   ),
   'appointment' => array(
     'type' => 'int',
     'size' => 'tiny',
     //More options if you wish
   ),
  );
  $indexes => array('services');
 return array($columns , $indexes);
}

if you want more customization you can define your own field_widget and your own field_formatter too . more on that you can also assign some field settings which can be modified in future using Field UI.

Answer 4

I would suggest you to use the Field Collection module in this scenario. You have to add a field_collection type field in your entity(node) and make its cardinality "unlimited". Now follow these steps:

1. Go to manage field section of the field_collection item you've just added.
2. Add services field and make it checkboxes/drop-down whichever you like, you can add options for the checkboxes there. But I would suggest to make services a taxonomy vocabulary and attach them through term_reference field type here.
3. Add a boolean checkbox field for appointment.

That should work.